The editors would like to thank Helen Fairlie at Sage for all her support. We would especially like to thank warmly Roma Woodward and Elizabeth Melville who have helped us manage this project through all the stages of production. Their assistance and expertise have been invaluable and we are most grateful and appreciative of their significant contribution.

James Banks would like to thank the publishers Kappa Delta Pi, International Honor Society in Education, for allowing him to reproduce material that appeared in The Educational Forum journal, Volume 68, Summer 2004.

Penny Enslin and Joseph Divala would like to thank Nicki Hedge for her advice in the preparation of their chapter.

Carole Hahn would like to thank the following people who reviewed her chapter and offered helpful suggestions: Diana Hess, University of Wisconsin; Peter Levine, Director of CIRCLE (Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Education); Walter Parker, University of Washington; and Judith Torney-Purta, University of Maryland.

Lee Jerome would like to thank Bhavini Algarra for helpful comments on a draft of his chapter and Terry Pickeral for drawing his attention to the assessment work being developed by the National Center for Learning and Citizenship.

Martina Klicperova-Baker would like to thank the Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic for supporting her research project # IAA7025303 Democratic ethos: Social Psychological Analysis and Intercultural Empirical Probes, and the following expert reviewers: Antonn Stank, Univerzita Palackho, Czech Republic; Ivo K. Feierabend, San Diego State University, USA.

Audrey Oslers contribution draws on material first published as Osler, A. (2008) Human rights education and education for democratic citizenship, in: C. Mahler., A. Mihr and R. Toivanen (eds.) The United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education and the Inclusion of National Minorities. Frankfurt: Peter Lang Verlag. She would like to thank the editors for allowing her to re-use this material.

Marianna Papastephanou wishes to thank the editors of the Journal of Philosophy of Education for permission to use material that first appeared in Volume 39, Number 3 of that journal.

Graham Pike would like to acknowledge Maryam Wagners assistance in preparing his chapter and to thank Deborah Hutton and Merry Merryfield for their insights into recent developments in the US.

Alan Sears and Andy Hughes would like to thank the following people for their contribution in reviewing their chapter on Canada: William Hatley, MA. Student, Faculty of Education, University of Calgary; Barbara Hillman, University of New Brunswick; Emery Hyslop-Margison, University of New Brunswick; Yvonne Hbert, University of Calgary; Jennifer Tupper, University of Regina.